Chapter 1: CONFUSED

Deep asleep, content in her dreams she felt normal. No bother at all. Serene.

That is until she woke up to a stiff body and pudgy hands by her face, adorning the most garish looking bright pink nail polish. Appalled by her view she sprang upright, almost falling of the bed, her old bed, the one that was in her childhood home.

Confused she looked around her old bedroom, her eye catching her reflection in the mirror. Oh god no, she thought eyeing her reflection. In the mirror a little twelve year old Haruno Sakura was staring back at her.

Could this be? Is something like this possible? She thought to herself. Last she remembered she was in the village, talking to her shishou.. about training Naruto for the position of Hokage. After all he was their savior in the war.

Standing she went to the window, glancing outside confirmed her suspicions, she has somehow travelled back in time. The village she was seeing now is not a village that had gone through several attacks and invasions.

Looking back at her reflection, she saw that her young self had not yet overcome her vanity yet. The faint traces of lip gloss still apparent on her dainty lips and that eye gouging pink nail polish was proof.

This must have happened for a reason, she quickly deducted. Nothing like this can be normal. Maybe shishou gave her a mission that involved her going to the past. But if they knew of such methods then there could be an unlimited amount of things that could be done.

And aside from the fact that so much could be changed and prevented by simply changing the past, why would she be chosen for the task.

She is… or at least was a capable kunoichi (her child body is practically useless she admitted) but she doesn't know what to do!

Searching her body and room she found nothing that could indicate what she was supposed to do or why she was there.

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"SAKURAAAA!"

Her mother. Sakura realized with a start. Her mother… is still alive.

Flinging the door open, almost unhinging it, she ran downstairs almost bulldozing her poor kaa-san over.

"Sakura you're not even dressed yet! I thought that you'd be more responsible now that yo-"

Her words were cut off due to the almost too tight hug from her daughter.

Sakura with tears in her eyes could only bask in her mother's comforting presence, ultimately grateful for the opportunity to get to see her mother again even though they were not the closest or had the best mother daughter relationship she still missed her kaa-san. Since the attack from Pein had taken her kaa-san, she never got to say goodbye.

Befuddled Mebuki stared down at her daughter, deciding that she should remind Sakura of her tasks today, she started to stutter out a response, cringing at the still too tight hug "Ehh… Sakura-chan I ahh.. you're going to be late. You don't want to miss out on finding out who'll be on your genin team do you?"

Bemused Sakura realized where she was in the past, and now knowing who her sensei is going to be, she knew not to be too eager to leave for Hatake Kakashi will not show until late afternoon.

Pulling away from her kaa-san, Sakura sucked in a deep breath before she replied, making her way to the front door

" Right, ehh.. I should probably go."

Before she could leave though her mother interrupted her.

" Sakura-chan. Shouldn't you get dressed first, you are late but not that late."

Upon looking down Sakura realized much to her consternation that she was still dressed in her baby pink night gown covered in bright red cherries.

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A bit late ( read: ridiculously late) she arrived at the assigned classroom just as Iruka- sensei left the classroom and lectured her about being late and how irresponsible that is now that she's a genin, then telling her that her team is waiting inside aside from their new sensei who'll come later.

Much later Sakura thought annoyed .

Entering the classroom, Sakura was met with an excited whiskered face under a mop of bright blonde hair and just beyond that was a brooding one very much avoiding eye contact , nothing new she noted blandly.

Silently she went to sit opposite Sasuke only nodding in greeting to Naruto who looked elated of having her notice him, which made her feel terrible because she forgot all about his crush on her.

She should set him up with Hinata as soon as possible.

Eventually Kakashi- sensei showed up, even Naruto's prank had been the same, and he fell for it! Again!

When they all gathered on the roof like instructed and were told to introduce themselves is where things got strange. Naruto was the same as ever but yet when it was Sasuke's turn there was no talk of killing Itachi, not even indirectly. No killing intent and no speech about how he'll avenge his clan and all that, nothing.

At that moment Sakura knew this future is going to be different.

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Hey.. so I'm new at this and I'm trying to write this to better my skill in creative writing for essays and such for school.

In not going to be making author notes a lot or on every chapter because I don't like them so yeah.

I have read a lot of Naruto ff and I finally decided to write one of my own.

I'm not too certain how to go about this but so far I think this isn't a bad start.

Let me know if I should add in the fighting with all the jutsu exchanges and such or should I just glaze over that because I can't guarantee good fights.